Product Details

About the Author

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of the Bugs series, which has sold more than 6 million copies. Also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Color series, featuring One Red Dot, Blue 2, 600 Black Spots, Yellow Square, and White Noise, he lives in Auburn, California, with his wife and two daughters.

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of the Bugs series, which has sold more than 6 million copies. Also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Color series, featuring One Red Dot, Blue 2, 600 Black Spots, Yellow Square, and White Noise, he lives in Auburn, California, with his wife and two daughters.

Editorial Reviews

Carter's bugs are back, this time in celebration of color. Six bugs get their own pop-up spreads, while a spare rhyme scurries throughout: "Red Bug/ Yellow bug/ Orange Bug/ And Blue/ Green Bug/ Purple Bug/ Bugs of/ every hue." The colorful bugs--which include a praying mantis and (technicalities aside) a spider--form a squiggly rainbow on the final spread. It's a familiar formula, but still likely to delight. Available simultaneously: Up & Down. Ages 1–5. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

What is round and white with tiny colored dots in the center? Answer: all the bugs' eyes in this pop-up bug book by David Carter. I it is 6" wide, 9" tall and ½" thick. The multi-colored bug on the front cover has a red head with red, yellow, and blue feelers. There are seven inside double page spreads; all but the last page has one large, colorful bug popping up from the center of the page. There is a Red Bug with very long curling feelers, a Yellow Bug that looks a lot like a bumble bee, an Orange Bug, a deep blue butterfly, a green grasshopper, a Purple Bug and, on the last page, "Bugs of every hue," which is a raised archway of critters. One of which has fallen out of the arch onto the page, but you cannot pick it up. Reviewer: Eleanor Heldrich